Re: PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image
"Brandon Bergren" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 9:16 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: > > > > On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This may be caused by a descynced timebase. At the loader prompt, do "boot kern.smp.disabled=1" (or set it in the loader environment) and see if that fixes it. > > > > This would be after installing freebsd yes ? I meant while booting into the installer. You can hit a button during the countdown and boot with extra options. Oh, and after some discussion in IRC, I realized that I was misremembering what I still needed on the G4 side, and it should theoretically work on *all* SMP G4s as-is. > > >> > >> Having gotten to the point of selecting Install, the keyboard wouldn’t > >> work. An Apple keyboard, hooked up via KVM switch, which was working > >> just fine upto that moment. > > > > I've seen this for some reason on ADB. I can usually work around it by using a USB keyboard. But it could be due to screwed up timers (due to timebase desync) > > > > The Apple keyboard is an USB keyboard but I worked around it by using a > spare USB keyboard I had. OK. > > > The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form > > CAM status: CCB request completed with an error > > > I may have to see if I have other USB flash dries around and try those. > It could very well be the USB flash. I didn’t realize the G4s would > be picky about the stick that is used. Well, generally the problem tends to be that the stick just plain doesn't show up as a disk@1 device in OF. > > cheers, > > mehul > > > > -- Brandon Bergren [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"